Take-up drive for photographic apparatus



Aug. 13; 1940. O wrr 2,211,358

TAKE-UP DRIVE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS Filed Feb. 1, 1938 10 Fig.1.

F1g.4. Z6 Z7 3% 21 q 64 a 01 0 Niel 62 57 12 t IIJX/ENTOR F 47 60 59 41$ 61' 49 46 ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 13, 1940 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE TAKE-UP DRIVE FOR PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS Otto Wittel, Rochester, N. Y., assignor to Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, N. Y., a corporation of New Jersey Application February 1, 1938, Serial No. 188,130

3 Claims. (O1.24255) The present invention relates to a take-up drive for a photographic apparatus and more particularly to a simple but effective friction connection directly operated by a prime mover and for rotating a take-up spindle member.

Various types of take-up drives include a :friction connection subject to slipping as the diameter of the take-up film roll increases. Such drives include spring belts and many forms of friction ing wherein similar reference characters designate similar elements and wherein:

Fig. 1 is a side elevation of a photographic apparatus adapted to receive film spools and equipped with a take-up according to the invention, a portion of the mechanism plate being broken away for better illustration of the internal parts.

Fig. 2 is a partial transverse cross section taken clutches interposed between the prime mover on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. 10 and the spindle member. However, such friction Fig, 3 is a side elevation of a photographic apclutches aregenerally inserted as a separate paratus of the magazine type equipped with the member. take-up drive of the invention and also having The primary object of the present invention the mechanism plate broken away to show the is the provision in a take-up drive of a driving construction of the drive. 15 connection in which the friction clutch is simul- Fig. 4 is a fragmentary transverse and entaneously provided by the elements of the driving larged section taken on the line 4-6 of Fig. 3. connection which includes a circular flange and Although the invention is illustrated and dea pair of flexible resilient discs engaging opposcribed with respect to a motion picture type of site sides of the flange to constitute a drive. photographic apparatus, it is to be understood 20 Another object of the invention is the provithat the invention may also be applied by one sion of one member for the friction drive directskilled in the art to all types oi photographic aply upon the spring motor and in direct engageparatus. Such motion picture apparatus comment with the complementary member of the 'prises a casing l0 having side walls H and an drive carried by the take-up spindle member. intermediate longitudinally extending mechanism 25 A further object of the invention is the proplate l2. An objective assembly i3 is attached vision either of an externally projecting flange to the forward side wall ii. The open side of or an internally projecting flange upon the spring casing ill may be enclosed by a cover 94, see motor casing, said flange being engaged by a Fig. 2.

pair of flexible resilient discs on the spindle The spool type photographic apparatus may 30 member, said discs engaging the externally procomprise a mechanism block 65 including a front jecting flange for rotation opposite to that of chamber IS in which the shutter and film adthe spring motor and engaging the internally vancing mechanism, not shown, are mounted, {projecting flange for rotation in the same direcincludes a triangular chamber il in which a tion as the rotational direction of the spring centrifugal governor, not shown, may be mount- 35 motor. ed, and s provided with a channel iii in which Other and further objects of the invention will a pressure pad I9 is pressed by a spring member be suggested to those skilled in the art by the 20 against the rear surface of front chamber i6. following description. The rear surface of front chamber i6 is pro- The above and other objects of the invention vided with an exposure aperture, not shown, and 40 are embodied in a photographic apparatus comthe pressure pad it maintains the film F against prising in combination, a rotatable driving memchamber it to form a film gate assembly. ber, rotatable spindle member for operation of The rotatably mounted driving means may a take-up fllm core or fllm spool, and a direct comprise a spring motor 29 including a supportdriving connection between said members, said ing spindle 22 fixedly mounted in mechanism 45 connection including a circular flange carried plate l2, a sleeve 23 rotatably mounted on supby one of the members and including a pair of porting spindle 22 and having a lug 24 to which flexible resilient discs mounted upon the other the inner end of the spiral spring 25 is attached, member and for frictionally engaging the opand all enclosed in a cylindrical casing 26 to posite sides of the flange on the first-mentioned which the outer end of spring 25 is attached and 50 member. More specifically, the driving member which has a flat side wall 21. may be provided as a spring motor and the cir- The take-up spindle member comprises a cular flange of the driving connection may be spindle 28 having teeth 29 and rotatably mounted mounted upon the casing of such motor. at 30 in the mechanism plate l2. The teeth 29 Reference is made to the accompanying drawof take-up spindle 28 are adapted to engage a 55 complementary opening in the flange 3| of takeup spool 32 so that said take-up spool 32 may be operated or rotated upon rotation of take-up spindle 28.

A driving connection is interposed between the driving member and the spindle member. Such driving connection comprises an externally projecting circular flange 33 which is attached by screws 34 to the fiat side wall 2'! of the cylindrical casing 26 of the spring motor 2|. Said driving connection also includes a pair of flexible resilient discs 35 which are centrally and concentrically attached to the end of take-up spindle 28 by a bolt 36 threaded into the end of spindle 28. The opposed peripheral margins of discs 35 are separated by or frictionally engage the opposite surfaces of circular flange 33, see Fig. 2. Rotation of said circular flange 33 with the spring motor 2| will cause rotation of flexible resilient discs 35, take-up spindle 28 and take-up spool 32.

A supply spindle 3! has teeth 38, is mounted at its inner end in mechanism plate l2 and is adapted to support a flanged film supply spool 39. During threading of the camera the film F extends from supply spool 39 through channel l8, where it is held in the focal plane of the objective assembly l3 by pressure pad l9, and thence to the take-up spool 32. Upon operation of the spring motor 2| and commonly associated film advancing mechanism, the film F will be unwound from supply spool 39 and wound up on the takeup' spool 32 but as the diameter of the take-up film roll increases the take-up drive must slip so that the take-up will not be drawing the film continuously through the film gate. According to the present invention such slipping occurs between the frictionally engaging surfaces of circular flange 33 and flexible resilient discs 35. Thus a simple but effective slip drive connection is provided between the spring motor 2| and the take-up spindle 28, the direct engagement of the elements in the driving connection contributing to such simplicity thereof.

The form of the take-up drive just described results in opposite rotation of the spring motor 2| and take-up spindle 28 as indicated by the arrows in Fig. 1. However, the take-up drive of the invention may also be designed so that the spring motor and take-up spindle member rotate in the same direction. This modification is shown in Figs. 3 and 4 in connection with a mag azine type of photographic apparatus, although.

it is to be understood that either form of the drive may be used with either a spool loading or magazine type of photographic apparatus.

Referring now to Figs. 3 and 4, the front housing 40 encloses the shutter and film advancing mechanism, not shown, and carries on its rear surface a pair of locating studs 4 A positioning member 42 is mounted on the rear housing 43 and resiliently urges the film magazine 44 into position against the locating studs 4|. The film magazine contains a rotatably mounted supply film roll 45 from which the film F extends through a film gate in the magazine and to a take-up film roll 46. The take-up film roll 46 1 is wound upon a core 41 rotatably mounted The driving member again may comprise a spring motor 2| rotatably mounted upon a support 5| including a spindle 52 and a base 53 which is fastened to mechanism plate l2 by a plurality of screws 54 and centered by a dowel 55. As before, the spring motor 2| includes a sleeve 23 having a lug 24 to which the inner end of spiral spring 25 is attached and also includes a cylindrical casing 26 to which the outer end of spring 25 is connected, having a fiat side wall 21 and including a crown gear 56. The spring 25 may be placed under tension by winding in a conventional manner whereupon the spring motor 2| will tend to rotate in the direction of the arrow shown in Fig. 3.

The spindle member for the magazine type of apparatus comprises a bushing 51 journaled in a bearing 58 in mechanism plate l2 and includes a clutch member 59 which has resilient ears 69 bent out of the plane of clutch member 59 for engagement with the teeth 50 on the end of film core 41 and which is secured to bushing 51 by a headed bolt 6|.

The driving connection comprises an internally projecting circular flange 62 attached to the flat side wall 21 of the cylindrical casing 26 for the spring motor 2|. Said driving connection also consists of a pair of circular, flexible and resilient discs 35 which are centrally and concentrically connected to the spindle member by a nut member 63 threaded onto the end of headed bolt 6|. Said nut member 63 has a shoulder against which the discs 35 are held by a collar 64 which is pressfitted onto nut member 63 firmly to secure the discs 35 thereto. The disc members 35 have their peripheral margins engaging the opposite surfaces of the internal circular flange 62, the inner edge of said flange 62 being beveled, see Fig. 4, to facilitate insertion of the flange between discs 35 during assembly of the mechanism.

It will be apparent that an extremely simple and direct friction driving connection is thus provided, the principal difference in this modification being the rotation of the spindle member in the same direction as the prime mover or spring motor.

Although the resilient discs 35 have been shown in each instance as being mounted upon the spindle member, it is pointed out that provision of resilient flanges on the spring motor casing 26 and of a rigid circular flange on the spindle member would be a mere reversal of parts and is within the scope of the present invention. It is also pointed out that the form of connection between the spindle member and the film spool or film core may be interchanged or may be varied according to any of the known forms. In short, the present disclosure is only illustrative and the scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims.

Having particularly described my invention, what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States and what I claim is:

1. In a photographic apparatus, the combination with a rotatable driving means including a rotatable cylindrical casing and a spring motor therein, and a spindle rotatably mounted and adapted to operate a take-up film core, of a driving connection including a circular flange on the casing of said driving means and including a pair of flexible resilient discs carried by said spindle, the opposed peripheral margins of said discs frictionally engaging the opposite surfaces of said flange.

2. In a photographic apparatus, the combination with a rotatable driving means including a rotatable cylindrical casing and a spring motor therein, and a spindle rotatably mounted and adapted to operate a take-up film core, in externally projecting circular flange on the casing for said spring motor and including a pair of flexible resilient discs carried by said spindle, the opposed peripherial margins of said discs frictionally engaging the opposite surfaces of said externally projecting flange.

3. In a photographic apparatus, the combination with a rotatable driving means including a rotatable cylindrical casing and a spring motor therein, and a spindle rotatably mounted and adapted to operate a take-up film core, of a driving connection including an internally pro jecting circular flange on the casing for said spring motor and including a pair of resilient flexible discs carried on said spindle within said circular flange, the opposed peripherial margins of said discs frictionally engaging the opposite 10 surfaces of said internally projecting flange.

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